On Feb 1, 6:34 pm, kj <no.em...@please.post> wrote: > > An innocuous little script, let's call it buggy.py, only 10 lines > long, and whose output should have been, at most two lines, was > quickly dumping tens of megabytes of non-printable characters to > my screen (aka gobbledygook), and in the process was messing up my > terminal *royally*. >
In linux terminals, try running the command "reset" to clear up any gobbledy-gook. It also works if you happen to hit CTRL-C while entering a password, in the rare case that it fails to set the text back to visible mode. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
